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    Finally found some consistency..

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    The investment we need is out there, and there's plenty of it. But as you say, it is not obtained cheaply. We had some investors involved with the Failsworth project, but the club didn't announce it. Investors know that if a football club is succesful then people will come to watch them. I think the Golden Ticket scheme was an attempt to get some people in to the tuesday night games, as out of the 5 matches in the ticket, 3 were Tuesday night and we had hardly pay on the dayers etc for the Walsall game.

     

    With the club is judged on performances on pitch and position in the league, yes we are not doing to well at the moment with performances, but 14th is higher than quite a few on here predicted at start of season. Obviously the way to improve it is to get better quality players etc, but that costs money. And if people in general stood and looked for a moment, they'll see that the club is trying to improve and increase revenues so we can improve the product on the pitch. We've got a new Chief Exe (forced upon granted) and now have Jenny Warburton as Commericial Manager and Broady is now Sales and Marketing Exe. This shows that the club is trying to move forward and improve the quality of product it offers, so that in it's own way will attract investment. People screaming doom and gloom won't help at all.

    Someone earlier in the thread mentioned the word unwatchable and yes it doesn't matter if it's free to get in...if it's not entertaining,noone will want to watch it.

    SINGING FANS @ BP

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    Us:

     

    Decent indoor boozing at the ground. No bells and whistles. Just a decent bar and a bit of shelter. Everyone goes there for the pre-match liveners instead of the Grey Mare, the Greyhound, the Rifle etc.

     

    Away fans only in the Chaddy. (There's plenty of space in the RRE for the quiet ones to avoid the singing sweary ones.)

     

    Standing in the Lees Stand Paddock (if the regulations aren't as tight as people make out).

     

    Some sort of national campaign against the ban on boozing in the stands of non-greedy league grounds.

    Common sense from Mr Tulsehill and you can quote me on that.

    For those 30 or under

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    Still remember finding my dad fully clothed asleep in the empty bath the morning after we won the league…..

     

     

     

    if we won anything I'd be found under a hedge somewhere far from home….after about a week…..

     

    I actually did fall through a hedge after the league was won. Happy Days :grin:

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    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    I know he gets a lot of stick (on here at least) but can't see what the complaint could be with him today. worked hard going forward & supported his full back defending too. thought he & lee looked a really good combo.

     

    rightly got a great reception as he got subbed too. all in, a good day! :)

    First half both teams were poor, second half Latics upped their game and gave a decent all round performance. 3 points, job done.

    Was anyone on here at this game?

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    yep was there in the back of the chaddy end - was a mad day - went for an underaged pint or two in the Golden Eagle on Rochdale Rd - long since demolished but was a good traditional boozer - West Brom fans everywhere all totally bladdered and falling out of cars / vans / minibuses etc along Rochdale Rd. Chaddy End had a small gang of Bolton scroates in cheering for the Latics as if we won they would get promotion IIRC - West Brom deservedly won and it was mayhem - and to cap iy all the Bolton fans got a well deserved kicking for their arrogance. I remember leaving past the RRE and no WBA fans at all as they were still in the ground - think it was 'interesting' later on in the town centre tho !

     

    :bobby: :bobby:

    I was also in the Chaddy and I remember Latics nearly scoring in the dying minutes, which would have kept West Brom down and wondering what the hell would have happened had it gone in.

    Twittering from BP v Morecambe

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    If we hadn't a decent, up to date website with good, timely content, rather than a collection of brief notes, incomplete player profiles and swathes of intrusive advertising and offer/discount/betting stories, maybe people would want to use it to keep in touch.

     

    Seems a particularly petty request from the club.

    Hang on ... it's a Latics' reserve team match, not the Champions League. Memo to OAFC, we're not on many peoples radar when the first team play never mind the reserves #getreal

    Paul Blacks dad

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted · Edited by Loftyboy

    I think what people mean is:

    Is it fact becasue you know him, by sight etc or fact because it stands to reason and logially it has to be him.

    I believe that the Mr Black in The Sun was hanging around at Latics during the "pinch me" seasons of the early nineties, I seem to recall him sat on the bench next to Big Joe.

    Solvent club, run prudently by local Chairman, proves its critics wrong

    in General Football and Allsports Chat

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    Who would have thought five years ago that, after a top-flight absence of 23 years, Stoke City would achieve comfortable Greedy League safety, cup runs and now a first-ever F.A. Cup Final? All this has been done on the watch of a chairman, who has supported the club since the 1940s, and without smashing the club’s wage structure.

     

    A mixture of lazy journalism on behalf of large parts of the media, and football snobbery, has led to a dismissal of Stoke City as a physical, long-throw one-trick team. Tonight there will be many pundits eating their words.

     

    While many clubs seem to have tried to bury their working class roots under the torrent of money introduced by Sky TV, The Potters still embrace those roots, and anyone who has sampled the bear pit of the Britannia Stadium will realise that the Chairman, manager, players and supporters don’t give a damn for the opinions of pundits. Attacks from the outside have merely galvanised and strengthened a siege mentality serving the club.

     

    When Stoke won the League Cup in the 1971-72 season, one of their goals was scored by Terry Conroy, who is currently recovering at home after undergoing emergency heart surgery last month. He has already amazed doctors, who said he had only a one-in-10 chance of surviving, and today’s result should have helped with his recovery, with a Cup Final attendance as his next goal.

     

    The very astute and determined Tony Pulis was Gillingham manager when Citeh fans had left Wembley and were on their way to the Tube, before a Lazarus-style comeback got Citeh promoted. Pulis will be hoping he who laughs last, laughs longest, as he takes on the world’s richest club in the Final of the world’s greatest cup competition.

     

    As Citeh fans wait for everything to go pear-shaped as usual, the fat lady called Delilah is warming up her voice for the big day.

     

    If Stoke win the Cup, or if Citeh win the Cup and finish in the top four of the Greedy League, Stoke will enter the Europa League, along with the sixth-placed team. The Stokies have much to get excited about.

     

    Good post Diego. What Stoke have done is really quite an achievement in todays game where money is king. Wouldn't bet against them bursting City's bubble.

    Crawley Town

    in General Football and Allsports Chat

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    <!--quoteo(post=461961:date=Jan 30 2011, 16:41 PM:name=LaticsLee)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LaticsLee @ Jan 30 2011, 16:41 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=461961"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->well done on winning a super money trip to OT Man Utd away in FA Cup.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

     

    :censored: em, hope Munich's stick at least 15 past them. Crook of a manager and trying to buy their way into the Football League.

    I'm sorry if this goes against the grain, but the use of the word "Munich's" to describe a club because a lot of their players died there always amazes me. Well done.

    On the bright side

    in General Football and Allsports Chat

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    We did indeed and they're sorry they didn't heed the warnings!!!!! Lets hope he continues his good form of shipping nearly 4 goals a game when we play them soon! :)

    Perhaps Mr Penney can write a book about successful interview techniques, because somehow he managed to get another job in football after his dismal efforts at Boundary Park

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